| The Walkmen – New Country Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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agree with harpoyeats corrections. Also, it's "bring me the money you're holding for me" not "the money you owe for me". That distinction in particular makes this seem less like a pure breakup song to me. |
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| Andrew Bird – Scythian Empire Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Agreed on the "serenity" of the song as it relates to destructive themes. Completely in line with "Yawning at the Apocalypse" . The idea is, we've seen this before in the past and we're part of it. It's nothing new. | |
| The Walkmen – Four Provinces Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| no comments on lyrics other than to say this is a great song | |
| The Walkmen – Dónde Está la Playa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Most intriguing line: I crashed up a party, nickels and dimes, A lot of lines in this song and album have that weathered traveler aesthetic and are just awesome: There is still sand in my suitcase. There is still salt in my teeth. Lots and lots more, you know. I love that nickels and dimes line though. |
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| Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the line from the website is: geez, don't you know that you could've died, should've died. |
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| Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the line from the website is: geez, don't you know that you could've died, should've died. |
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| Andrew Bird – Scythian Empire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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From the Onion A/V Club Interview: A lot of [my] songs have a big leap, like there's two strains going on. In this case, it's my current state of mind, and then the mind completely wanders to a whole different universe, and I see how one might have something to say about the other. I was imagining this real-estate agent out on the Russian steppes. [Quoting lyrics:] "Offering views of exiting empires, such breathtaking views of Scythian empires." I've always been fascinated by these obscure corners of history. I sit there and look at maps of the ancient world, where there's so many of these fantastical names, tribes that you know nothing about. The Visigoths, the Gauls. And of course, the Huns. And they're always at the edges of the empires—they're shown as an arrow piercing into this empire. When I was in eighth grade, I got particularly fascinated by the Scythian empire, because they were a little bit lesser-known. And that became my thing. My identity in eighth grade was connected to the Scythians. So I resurrected them through this song. |
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| Andrew Bird – Scythian Empire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| On second though, I wouldn't put it passed Andrew Bird to create a double entendre on routed by some Aschaens esp. following that archers of an after thought line. | |
| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sounds so much like Jeff Buckley | |
| Andrew Bird – Scythian Empire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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That's a fantastic insight. I never though about him putting in those images to compare w/ Scythian relics. I thought he was using those words, b/c they convey strong images, to tie his allegory to our modern American empire. I thought he was just making it clear that we're the exiting empire, this is our Apocrypha, and that it's nothing new. Also, I thought the line, 'routed by some Achaeans' was 'routed by summations.' I'm clearly wrong, but it just made sense to me that those words would follow 'archers of an after thought' and would refer to the idea this ancient empire that lasted thousands of years is now summed up, if even mentioned at all. Tie that theme into the earlier references and those Halliburton attache cases and scotch gaurd macintoshes will be equally irrelevant in history. It's hard to think Halliburton w/out thinking Iraq and the scotch guard macintoshes just seemed to me to be an kernal of an image of capitalism and consumerism, all of which will be equally irrelevant in the scope of history. can you tell I like this song??? |
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